The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Hockey Show: Fit Check

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

Roy and David are back with another episode of The Hockey Show to deliver their fails, wins, and hot takes of the week from all around the NHL. Then, friend-of-the-show Sara Civian of Too Many Men stops by to chat about her new substack, hockey, AND hockey fashion before Roy and David dive into all things Florida Panthers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. Welcome to the hockey show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Druk of the Hockey News is to my left right there. We got Sarah Sivian from the Civ Report and too many men to join us here as a guest in a little bit. I love it. Love it. Yeah. So let's get started with some slapshots here and we got some hot takes for you. Dave, why don't you go ahead? I'm going first. Yeah. All right. Well, my hot take is I'm calling next year's Rookie of the Year. I'm doing it now. I am gonna go ahead and say that Ivan Demidov, who is right now playing for SKA in the KHL. He was drafted by Montreal. Here's a goal

he scored the other night. Cutting through the defense, splitting the defense, putting on the jets, making a nice little backhand forehand move on the goaltender. He gets the puck, watch how he cuts through both guys. It's like a knife. And then one hand on the stick, backhand forehand, slides it by the goal. He actually in the same game almost did the exact same thing twice. It was ridiculous. The puck just went through the crease. But Ivan Demidov went fifth overall to the Montreal Canadiens at the draft last summer in Vegas. He's going to go pro, or he is pro. He's going to go North American pro after this season. And I think he's going to be next year's Calder Trophy winner. That guy is sick.

Counterpoint? That was terrible defense. How about that? It wasn't great. No, it was not. Was not great defense. Yeah, but he definitely showed off the skills and the skating ability there. I'm excited, man. You know, playing for SDA, you're gonna be getting great competition every night in the KHL. Yeah, man. good team. Yeah. Excuse me, not SKA, CSTOT. No, SKA. The alma mater of Igor Shosturkin,

who is tearing up the NHL right now. Good talent coming out of that one. My hot take, I'm gonna have to rip the Tampa Bay Lightning here, because what happened last year where Stephen Stamkos and their negotiation tactics on trying to extend them was offensive. It was terrible. They lowballed him. And if I was him as captain of that team,

you know, playing for that team for 16 years, winning two Stanley Cups for that team, injuring himself, coming back. And you do that to him. Like I can compare it to the Wayne Wade and his not contract negotiations with the Heat before he left to go to Chicago. But yeah, that's that you can't do that to your captain. That struck a chord too. Like you bringing that up just now,

like I hadn't thought about that in a while. Yeah. That struck a nerve. Yeah, it hurts doesn't it? Yeah. That's the same exact thing the Lightning did to Stephen Stamkos. And they bring him back as we're seeing here and parade him around. And it was great for the fans and you've got to do that. Like you have to, but I agree with you that off the surface, tap in your chest, because it's not the fans that

negotiated with him, it's the team. But this is important though, because as Stammer said this week, it was the fans that he had such a strong connection with. So for him to kind of have this goodbye and to have that extended standing ovation and for him to kind of go around the ice like that, like I thought that was an important thing for him. But I'm sure, I'm not sure, but I would think if it was me at least, I'd be a little bit like, man I shouldn't be wearing this yeah I should be wearing that doesn't look good in yellow it's not that but I mean you know wearing the same colors forever yeah yeah I mean it's some resolve for him at least towards the fans but even with the fitting tribute that they had in the video that the

lightning did for him, that does not absolve them from their role in that negotiation battle that they had. Yeah. You got to treat your franchise guy a little better. Oh yeah. It's just the guy and you know, it's nice that the heat and Wade got their happy ending and their random looking statue, you know, it's whatever. But hopefully five, six, seven years down the line,

we're talking about something similar that the lightning maker right with Sam Coast, because right now it just does not feel right. It's gonna come down to him signing a one day contract and that's it. And that's it. Is that how we just fix everything nowadays with one day contracts?

Yeah, that's what they did with Emmett Smith, the Cowboys did when he left to go to Arizona. He came back, signed that one day deal and retired as a Cowboy. That's what's going to end up happening. Didn't somebody just do a one day contract? Like one of the Stahl brothers maybe? Don't remember if one of the Stahl brothers did. What, Eric Stahl?

Yeah, maybe. He did what, Carolina? Let's see. I mean, geez. Yes. Thank you, Google. They, Eric Stahl signed a one-day contract to retire as a member. So that's the thing that we do now. Yeah, and that's how we fix everything. That's how we fix, yeah, so cool. I wonder how much those contracts are worth. Zero dollars. I'm negotiating on my one-day contract. Well, you want to get taxed? Is that how you want it? Because that's what's going to end up happening. You know what?

If I have to demand $1,000 so they can tax it and I take home $600, I'm cool with that. And this is Florida, by the way. My one-day contract's going to be with somebody in Florida, so I'm not really getting taxed. So you're going to pay by the hour on that? I'm always going to get paid by the hour. I work in broadcasting.

Of course. Let's go to the wins here. I'm going to start with this one. I'm going to go with the City of Los Angeles. They won big time this week. All right. So, Crypto.com Arena during the Kings game versus the Golden Knights. Well, I guess throughout the game in this situation, but especially during the intermission, showed the World Series, it was game five at Yankee Stadium, and they showed the Dodgers winning the championship, and the fans got to see it in the arena. They even played the actual World Series game during play.

That was really cool of them to do that. So that's a big win for me for that. Okay. Yeah, I have some thoughts. I have some thoughts on this Yeah, first of all, it's cool that the Kings did that cool on the Kings to play it that I'm sorry if I'm a diehard Marlins fan and the Marlins are playing in the World Series With a chair deciding game. There's a role game. the way. There's a road game for the World Series team. I'm leaving my Panthers. I'm giving somebody my Panthers. Sorry Panthers or whoever. Heat, whoever. If the team is playing and the chance to win the championship that night, I'm not going to another game and staring at my phone all night or hoping they put out like, what the hell are you guys thinking? They're wearing their Dodgers gear at the hockey game. Your team's winning

the world's seal. Like what are you, what's going on? And this is- You should make this your fail. No, well, when I was 12 and the Panthers were in the Eastern Conference final, my family went to the Marlins game during game seven and I got forced to go because I couldn't stay home. So I wore my Panthers jersey and I brought my walkman and listened to whoever was the play-by-play in 96, Chris, was it Chris? Jiggs McDonald.

No, I can't think of his last name, Chris Stone. God, forgive me Panthers for not remembering. But so that has resonated with me all these years because they actually put it on the teal tower in the bottom corner They had Panthers Penguins store there and you could hear little murmurs throughout the crowd whenever the Panthers scored But I wanted to be home I don't know why anybody would go to a game When your team is about to win a championship if you if they're on the road go to a bar

Go hang out with your friends like I Alright, I I'm done. Yeah, yeah you're done so that is that I mean you might replace your fail with that because that's money spent by those fans by the way they didn't know when I mean especially for the season tickets hold season ticket holders they didn't know what day or what time that game was gonna there's a secondary market for tickets they like it's easy and honestly like if I can't get rid of them, whatever. Take the L for the cost of the tickets.

If you're a season ticket holder, they're cheaper anyway. But no, I'm not missing my favorite team win. And I want to be like in a situation where I can celebrate and have fun. It just doesn't work for me. And I just feel like I'm repeating myself at this point. But no. Okay. What's your win, Dave?

My win of the week? I thought we were doing, oh no, we're doing wins. No, it's your turn. It's your turn. My win of the week is out of the Pacific Northwest. Our old friend, Brandon Montour, the first hat trick by a defenseman this season, a natural hat trick, and we've seen two other goals, power play goals from the point point as we've seen Brandon Montour do many times here in South Florida. Just the cool thing to see him get that for Seattle and then a day later leaves the team to go head home to be with his wife while the Seattle was in

Eastern Canada. He heads home because his wife had their second child, the little girl earlier this week. So a little Kai's got a little sister now. So awesome, awesome win for Brendan Montour and his family this week. Just super happy for him and for the Montour clan. Good for him. Good for him. He's a good dude, right?

Yeah, he's good that when you have a child during the season, usually good luck follows you as a hockey player. The dad bump. Yeah, the dad bump player. The dad bump. The old dad bump. We saw it with Montor. It was his first stint here. We saw it with Sergey Bobrovsky. Ryan Lombard had a dad bump. That you know that when Sergey Bobrovsky became a father that's when everything changed. Everything changed. Like we would like I'm not saying we. Day on the big show were busy complaining

about how Sergey Bobrovki was playing and then Comes a father and now all of a sudden boom Santa Co champion dad bump is real man. Yeah biggest fail of the week We're gonna go to a fight that happened during the Capitals Rangers game Matt Rinke who by the way was demoted earlier to the Hartford Wolf Wolf pack a couple days earlier was promoted back up to the Hartford Wolf pack a couple days earlier, was promoted back up to play against the Capitals because those two teams hate each other. Legitimately hate each other. I mean, those are two big, big men. Yeah. Yeah. In there too. What? Renpey's 6'8"?

I remember last year when I got introduced to Matt Renpey was when he fought Ryan Reeves and I always thought Ryan Reeves was like the biggest M-Bleaper in the league. He always just seemed like so much bigger than everybody and then I saw him next to Rempey and I'm like, oh my God, this is a mountain of a man. So that was awesome. Now I don't know if you saw this, I'm gonna interrupt our fails for a second. There's a picture that I put in there guys, if you could pop it up real quick, of Matt Rempey. So him getting called back up to the Rangers was cool because then he got to go back to

where he stays with the Rangers and that's in Jonathan Quick's house. He's Jonathan Quick's house guest and that is Halloween, that's Rempey on the right, and that's Jonathan Quick's son on the left dressed up as Matt Rempey. That's pretty awesome. I think his son's name is Cash. Cash. But how cool is that? They have the fighting stance up there. Obviously Rempey is having a very positive impact on that family. You know, most hockey players are good dudes so it's not surprising there. But I thought that was pretty cool so I just wanted to share that. Well hopefully

Cash fights better than Rempey because he hasn't been doing well at all. He lost that fight, came away bloody. In the three games that he's played so far, he's had one fight, six hits, zero points. He's even on the plus minus. In that game versus the Capitals, he had five minutes on the ice and yeah, he spent as much time in the bike stage as he did on the ice in that game versus the Capitals he might be demoted again. Sounds about right yeah in terms of what how he divides up his time. Yeah let's go with your fail. My fail is I feel for it's another goalie thing as I said on Twitter this is why I keep my ass in the goal crease most of the time because things like this happen. Oh no. Ilya Samsonov came out to play the

puck and kind of whiffed half-whiffed whoops and then an awesome spin move by Warren Fogel. Who do you always a missing by the way? Yeah they are. But look at this. I got it I got it oh wait I don't got it and then so smart by Fogel to just quickly put it in right between his legs that's a major fail Um, sorry Ilya Samsonov. Just dude can't catch a break Yeah, don't play the puck when you have the opposing player resting on you. Two hands on the stick at least. Yeah Alright, go ahead Dave and send us the break, please. Alright, well coming up next We're going to talk to our friend Sarah Sivian who just launched the Civ Report and

I can't wait to talk to her about a few things that are going on in the title it's smart though like this could have been like the the bell and dwork show or something but yeah that's true instead of hockey show it's like you know an author writing a book and that author's face is plastered in on the cover of the book yeah yeah but i like this it Civ Report. It's not just the hockey show. It's the hockey show. Yeah, that is true. It is the hockey show. The hockey show.

But is it the Civ Report? Because. It's the Civ Report. Oh, yeah. Emphasis. Oh, yeah. Emphasis. I know.

It rolls off the tongue very nicely. Yeah. Thank you. Absolutely. It works. The Seattle Kraken have a assistant coach, a history making assistant coach, and Jessica Campbell and Ryan Clark of ESPN

wrote about her. And one of the things that they discussed was what she was gonna wear. In her NHL debut, she chose white because that's the only color a man can't wear. Now, it's after Labor Day, that's one thing, right? You can't wear white after Labor Day. That's a rule, isn't it? I think that's over. I think if you're just Campbell, you pull it off.

Oh, really? It's a statement. Yeah. You're doing what you're not allowed to do. She's a rebel. Well, look at what she's doing. She's standing on the bench of an NHL team coaching. She's already breaking through barriers. So like, screw the fashion rule. Wear polka dots, wear whatever you want, man. Yeah, more stripes.

Who knows? I love that she's not trying to blend in though. I love, as the first woman behind a bench, she really is making the statement and saying, hey, I'm here. I'm not going to dull my shine for anybody. No, that's true. That's good. And after a month, I mean, seems like a good shine for anybody. That's true, that's good.

And after a month, I mean, seems like a good situation for her. How would you judge what's going on right now in Seattle? Oh, I'd say there needs to be more than one player scoring one goal every single game. I feel like, remember that game where they were just lighting it up? It's like every player has one goal.

That's a Ron Francis classic to just have like the amount of depth, but the depth is doing nothing. You need a star, I'm sorry. Well, they got Brandon Montor putting up hat tricks. Yeah, I mean, full defense. Yeah. It's like, they generate so much offense from their defense. Montor fit in perfectly, but at what cost?

Fair enough, fair enough. So let's talk about the big story in the lead right now, I think is the Connor McDavid injury because Edmonton already kind of stumbled out of the gate a little bit. I had them coming out of the west this year, I thought we might see another Stanley Cup final rematch just as to how good both teams looked heading back into the season. But the Oilers, not so much, Sarah. What are your thoughts on the way the Oilers have started the season? I mean, Zach Hyman went zilch for the first 10 games and it's like, it really does accentuate how good McDavid is that he's off to his career worst start regardless of the injury and the whole team flounders. I think the

goal-tending has been atrocious, obviously. The defense is non-existent, and it's just, I wake up every single day wanting Darnell Nurse to be the best defenseman on earth. I want him to live up to his contract, and he just doesn't. We're already talking about which right-hand defenseman can go to his side and help him out. You can't have your best-paid defenseman almost in the league needing help like that year after out. I'm like, you can't have your best paid defense almost in the league needing help like that year after year. I think defense is never going to be good, but everybody has to be playing their career years on offense for that to happen and for them to be the best team in the league. And that's not happening whatsoever anywhere in the lineup. So if you're struggling

on offense, you're not going to be successful for the Oilers. He did get an assist and was a plus two last night and Leon Drysaddle did have two goals and assist but are we looking at a bust status for Darnell Nurse? I mean, we have been and it stinks because I mean, he'd be fine if he was a second pairing on a really good team but he's expected to do so much and that contract, it's not even just about the money, it's about the trade clauses. It's like the most ironclad contract.

That agent is like the best agent in the world. I don't know, like signing that was crazy in retrospect, but I'm happy for him. I think the pressure to perform, it handcuffs the rest of the team. So staying north of the board or something else I wanted to talk to you about, and I think you guys touched on this on your podcast recently, is the goaltending situation in Toronto. We're big Anthony Stolar's fans down here. We love Stoli, and it's great to see that he's kind of taking that job and

running with it a little bit in Toronto because they have such a good team. But is this going to be good enough for them to get to where they want to go in terms of they want to be a playoff team, they want to win playoff rounds. We love Stolle. Are they going to show that kind of faith in him and let him run with it or are they still kind of waiting for Joseph Wall to see if he's the guy? I mean, they keep putting Wall in when they think he's ready and he was good against Seattle yesterday but aren't we all saying Seattle isn't that hard to beat. So I think the story is still unwritten

there. I think Stolarz, I love seeing him go off and he really, he has that in him though. And then it kind of progresses to the mean. So I think they say if you have three good goalies, you have no good goalies, but I think the situation is different here. I think it's cool that everybody gets to chip in and have like their moment to shine and we're gonna see who wins out The question is is Borube gonna handle that correctly? Is he going to know wins enoughs enough? The Boston Bruins are currently four six and one with nine points dead last in the Atlantic Division. They lost eight to two in Carolina last night, it was God awful.

And they sized stuff. They beefed up during the off season. They gained some, some pounds to be more physical, but it seems like the big bad Bruins are just big and bad. Well, Jim Montgomery, I mean, I can, I can talk shit about the Bruins. You're giving them the Crosby treatment. Goodness. Watching them makes me so angry.

Like I hate that they're on the TV at every bar I go to in Boston. They take like one shot per period. It's miserable hockey because it's about Jeremy Swainman. If he's good that night, they have a chance. If he's bad that night, absolutely no chance. And that's just been exposed. I mean, they had two elite goaltenders for two years

and they were playing this way though. I know Florida fans and Florida Panthers followers know this. Like they were miserable to watch. They don't have great offense until it's overtime and Postronok makes it happen. I mean, watching them with no depth throughout the lineup is a miserable experience and having Omar go away just kind of accentuates that. It's not all his fault though. I mean, the team is bad, but he has an eight, 84 save percentage and he's

given up almost four goals a game at this point. Like, is it, is this because he missed training camp? No, it's because the Bruins offense is awful and they spend so much time in the defensive zone and Swainman genuinely can't do it all, but he's not doing as well as he did with Omar because he didn't get, like, he is worth the money, but he didn't get the proper reps in

to totally be that number one goaltender. Like, we didn't get to see as much of him as we should before that contract signed. So now it's kind of like the amount of pressure on him, the drama, it does add to it, but it's also just, it's tough watching the offense be in their zone for one second of every game. Is Jim Montgomery on the hot seat? Yes, he is. Yeah, that's something else to give. It looks like they're not playing for him. Like the amount, I cannot stress enough, four shots in nine minutes, like when you need

to come back. It was just horrendous yesterday, but that's a micro-ism of what the season has been. Sarah, before I get to my next question, I just want to compliment you as a fashionista yourself. I love the 1996 NBA All-Star Game sweater that you're donning. I've also got some mid-90s swag myself with my Arturus Urbe shirt here, so I feel like we kinda have the same vibe today,

but I love, that's a great choice by you. I get A.O.C. Richmond stuff on right now from Tirlasso. Can't go wrong. You're always wearing something funky, but I, this is vintage. My boyfriend is from San Antonio and they hosted the All-Star Game, and now Wemby's putting on a five-by-five show, so had to rep San Antonio. Here's the All-Star game and now Wembe's putting on a five by five show so had to rep San Antonio.

Here's the better looking. It's very cool. I like that look. Thank you. I like it too. I wear it like every day. It looks comfortable. Yeah.

So back to hockey. Alex Ovechkin. I love what he's doing this year obviously. I mean he's got what three goals in his last two games. He scored again last night. I'm sure what are the numbers here as I put them up okay so he is now 36 behind Gretzky so he's doing it this year right like OV is gonna get better as the year goes on it's gonna just kind of go

downhill and we're gonna see some history right it's OV's year. You got him scoring 40. It might be the Capitals at large year like I love maybe this is a spin zone, but I love that he started out the season with assists, not goals. And now he's like, don't worry, guys. I'm here, like two goal periods. He's back. He is so back. But Tom Wilson helped out. Everybody's helping out. Connor McMichael's girlfriend's giving birth and he's like, wait, I got to score two goals. Everybody is firing on all cylinders for the damn Washington Capitals. Who thought that would happen?

Well, we're not talking about that. We're always going to do it. Yes. What they did in the off season, right? Like bringing in Chickren, they got a new goaltender. They made some smart moves and I guess maybe we got under the radar because now all of a sudden, look at the caps. Yeah. That's what happens when you capitalize off the evil that is the Vegas Golden Knights. You capitalize. In the evil empire.

Ah, that, smart. Steven Stamkos is now a Nashville Predator. He had the nice comeback video and a nice tribute in Tampa when the Predators played the Lightning. Now, am I right in saying that, yes, it was a nice tribute, but it was disingenuous by the franchise in Tampa, considering how they low bottom in negotiation last year. It's awkward as heck. I guess that's how you keep the franchise going.

I mean, the Lightning looked better than ever. I got to hand it to them for doing what they did as hard as it was, honestly. Like I'm kind of team Lightning on this one, as much as I love Stamcoast, I love what he brought to that team when they weren't good and I love I mean that shift where he came back after a broken Leg and scores that's one of my favorite hockey shifts of all time But that being said if you want to keep succeeding if you think your team has something which with that first line

Of course it does you go get Jake Ensel. I'm team lightning on that one. I'm sorry Wow, so keeping it with the lightning before we wrap things up here. Obviously, they're off to a pretty good start. Nikita Kucherov is looking like he's having another Heart Trophy caliber season, but just kind of looking at the top of the standing or that scoring standings, you got Kucherov, Kyle Connor and Sam Reinhardt, all teams that are doing well. The only players in the league who are in the top 10 in both goals and in points. Is the Atlantic division just the cream of the NHL right now, Sarah? It's either the worst or the best thing we've ever seen in our lives or the most

mid thing we've ever seen in our lives because there are so many bubble teams right now. The parity is insane and we're waiting for the Red Wings to mess up, right? But I do think the Atlantic Division, it's giving the best competition night for night, pound for pound. I mean, I want to give credit to Sam Reinhardt. He, when Markov was out, Kachuk was out, he's still scoring the goals. He's shoving it in everyone's face. That contract looks amazing. I love that. Finally, Macklin Celebrini had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut on October 10th, and then he took a bump in that game and has been out since. He skated in practice yesterday, but the sharks are the worst team in the league is Mike Greer and I guess his brother, Chris Greer and the dolphins. Is he on the hot seat?

Yeah, they're both hot seating right now. Well, yeah. What to talk. I think, no, I don't think Greer is on the hot seat. I mean, they're supposed to be bad. They're supposed to be tanking. I think it's such a delicate line to walk on when it's like, you don't want to lose night after night. But at the same time, I love that Mario Ferraro called game. He's like, we're going to win tonight. And then they won. And it was like the most exciting thing in the world. They had two fun games, right? We'll let them live after that. Okay. All right, sir. Always great having you on the show. We appreciate

you. Uh Sarah Sivian, The Civ Report and too many men. Thank you for joining us, Sarah. Thanks so much for having me. Always a pleasure, guys. Alright, we're back. Uh let's go over what the Panthers did this week and uh they did some and winning they swept the entire state of New York they they beat the Rangers the Allenders and the Sabres this week three game winning streak and Let's go over what happened on in the Gordon They won 3-1 was the Rangers that was Sergey Bobrowski's 400th win. Yes, I stole it. They came by Bob great game by Bob He was the fastest that any goaltender has reached 400 wins with He's 400th win. Yes. Stole it. Great game by Bob. Great game by Bob. He was the fastest that any goaltender has reached 400 wins with 707.

He beat Henrik Lundqvist, actually he beat the king, in the garden. So that's pretty good. That's pretty ironic. No, it's pretty cool. And I mean, look, where is he at now? Bob is 401 wins, so he's still got a ways to go before he catches the great Martin Brodeur at 691. Yeah.

But... At 36 years old right now. Well, that's the thing. He's 36 and he's still like playing just as well as he did, you know, five, six, seven years. I mean, you know, the year thing with the Panthers and everything, but he's still playing very strong. It doesn't look like he's had any physical fall off his game.

The age is not catching up with him. We know that Bob is this guy who's got a legendary work ethic. First guy in, last guy out. He loves it. He's a gym rat. No reason to think that he's going to slow down. I wouldn't think he's the guy that would, you know, just because his contract's up after next season, I wouldn't think that he's going to just call it a career.

He's going to want to keep playing. And if he can still play in it, that's like, I'm curious, like how far can Bob take it? If he plays on a team like the one he's on right now that plays defensive style that takes away Second opportunities that cuts away on the inside of the ice He can go for a long time and have a lot of success So depending on what he's looking for out of his next contract if he's willing to you know Make it work with the Panthers and they're willing to play this style Could see Bob playing in that another few years for the Panthers and succeeding

Eastern Conference championship rematch in this one go over how the Panthers did and how the Rangers struggled Well the Panthers There was a good competition of a game because both teams got their chances both goaltenders played really well It was nice to see the Panthers get their offense going a little bit on Shisterkin Just because he's been such a tough guy to score on Anton Lindell and Sam Bennett both with some nice plays to get that pucks behind him in that game but overall that was all Bob that was a Sergey Bobrovsky stolen game very appropriate for his 400th win because the Rangers put a lot of high danger chances I believe it was nine I think

the number was no I believe that number was ten and he stopped nine of them but yeah just awesome by Bob very deserving and congrats to you Bob 400 wins the Vandestan went a couple burrows over to play the Islanders they won six to three They came back from a three nothing deficit and a very very rocky start for Spencer Knight who allowed three goals in first seven shots before Saying you know what shot this thing down. That's what you like though. Like as we've talked about with Spencer Knight, it's going to be a process this

season. So to see him have that kind of a rough start, not get pulled, be able to come mentally like, all right, I'm good. I got the, like, you know, it's a long game. Obviously he's on a team that he knows that is capable of coming back as they did. And so to see him shut the door on the Islanders the rest of the game, to see Florida as we've kind of, this is such a mentally strong team, going down early is not gonna hurt them. They turned it on, came back, and really, it felt like a tale of two games,

because the way they looked in the first, not even 10 minutes, and the way they looked the last 50, much better. I said that, Spencer Knight, before he went into player assistance, that all he has to do is just give up one goal and he'll be set, he'll be in the game and shut everything down. So hopefully he can get back in that mode.

All right, I'll allow one. Let's cut it out. Look, he's a great, talented goaltender. I think it's just a matter of getting back into his routines and his rhythms and feeling comfortable at this level. I think we're seeing that he looks very, very much in his element right now. He's gonna get one of these games probably in Finland, so it'll be nice to see that kind of continue

and to see him get one out there as well. But overall, I think, you know, small sample size, we're only 11 games into the season. He's only played three of them. But from what we've seen so far from Spencer Knight, I think it's what you want to see early on. Matthew Kachuk scored his first and second goals of the season, including this one that cut the deficit, the three to this goal is critical central. Matthew Kachuk. I mean, it was he drove everybody crazy on this goal. Take a look at this one in the chops

Yeah, he got speared basically ain't caught at and they cross checks the goaltender and then The shot on goal hit the post he found the puck behind him and Jan at home and in the big scrum and then he punched I love it. Yeah, that's critical central. Well, he scores his goal and instead of putting his arms in the air, he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, in our area, we got our thing going on. And like, you know, if you're a mentally strong goaltender, like you can kind of deal with that and move on. But obviously that one, just to Chuck bumped into Varlamov, Varlamov responded by, you know, chopping him in the midsection. To Chuck smartly, you know, put his weight down, took his stick and took it behind the net.

It's good move by to Chuck. You're not going to get called for that. And then he comes back, gives him a little pop in the shoulder, like you're in his head. Like the puck hits the post, the rebound's there, goalie doesn't know where it is. That was, as you said, quintessential, perfect Matthew Kachuk.

That is what makes him so valuable, is that he's so skilled, but he can still do that greasy, grimy, dirty shit that drives everybody crazy. He is the guy who you love to have on your team and you hate to play against. Mackie Samuskevich scored his first goal in his NHL career. That felt like it was just like a matter of when.

Because he was getting a lot of chances, his speed was showing off. He tried that wraparound move at least three or four times before finally converting on it. I feel like he's done a good job in terms of just fitting in with the Panthers this year. He hasn't looked at a place, which is what we've seen with some of the rookies that they brought up over the years,

whether it was a Hendrick Borgstrom or whether it was a Vridori Denisenko. They just didn't look like they were ready at the NHL level they meshed they kind of faded in they never stood out but with Mackie Samistewicz he is standing out he's making things happen with and without the puck so very promising rookie season and a good start for Mackie so far. The Panthers traveled up in upstate New York to play the Buffalo Sabres they won 5-2 and this will make Rose happy because Alexander Bogov made his return from injury

and scored the first goal of the season for him. Yes. That's a, look at the smile on her face. Yeah, well, Barky looked great. Like on the very first shift of the game, like he made a between the legs move. He drove at the net. It was like, hey, I'm back, I'm ready.

And there was a little scare at the end of the first period where it looked like, you know, I took a little tumble behind the net. I think he got bumped into by Nico Micola and skated a little gingerly, but he was obviously fine, came back. Yeah, I got worried about that one. A little bit, but no, I look, Barky is Barky.

I mean, when he's healthy, when he's in the lineup and he's a hundred percent, he's a game changer in every zone and every level, whether it's special teams, five on five. The Panthers are rolling right now and I'm very excited to see what they're going to do because they're going to play a very, very good Dallas Stars team for a pair of games in Finland. That'll be a great test for both of them. It's a five game road winning streak for the Panthers. Carter Verhege has a seven game point streak. Sam Bennett has a five game goal scoring streak.

Everything is going very well for it, especially the top six forwards for the Panthers. What is it about guys in their contract year with the Panthers just scoring the lights out? Like Sam Bennett, eight goals through 11 games. Who saw that coming? He's like, he's had five straight goal games with a goal for Sam Bennett. And he did that with Matthew Kachuk missing five games with Sasha Barkov out. So it's been an awesome start to the season for a lot of guys. And you mentioned Verhege on the point streak streak he didn't score for like the first seven or eight games and he still kept the scoring up now he's putting the puck in

the net so I don't know it's a good time to be a Panther fan I feel like we say that a lot. A lot of pets being adopted because of Sam Bennett. We'll get into that a little later a little later this month. Quick plug though for Rose to chime in real quick. Don't forget to follow the hockey show on X on Instagram. Hockey show DLS. Right Rose? Very, very good. You know you have a microphone Rose. And what the hell are you wearing? What is this getup that you got over here? What's going on here? I'm so sorry. I forgot I had this but it's for my migraines. I'm so sorry. That's an ice pack. It's like Frozone. There's an ice pack on your head, but you weren't a blanket.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but yeah. No, but yeah. I'm gonna get it off for the rest of the thing. Okay, okay, all right. All right, the Panthers are seven, three, and one right now. 15 points to lead the Atlantic division as opposed to Boston Bruins who won their last.

They are second in the Eastern Conference behind New Jersey, third overall in the league behind Winnipeg in New Jersey. They are sixth one to one since starting the season, oh two and zero. That's some good stuff right there for your defending champion. Not too bad. And Anberk will join us next week. He's a month into his new gig with Prime Canada.

And he wants to talk about it. I'm excited to hear his take like what's the last month been like? He was so jacked up to get into it so I can't wait to hear how it's been going for him. He's always jacked up. That man is a good man, he's a fun man to be around so good for him. He'll be on next week. That's the hockey show for this week, for Dave, for Rose, for everybody in the back. I think it's Gino and Jason right now, right? I think, I believe they have microphones. They would say yes, but yeah, they're back there. Hey, thumbs up.

Yes, all star crew. Yeah, I know, there's Danny as well. Hey, all right, that's our engineer. All right, folks, we are out of here. We will see you next week, goodbye. Howdy loyal audience, it's Mike Ryan, and we're getting down to the nitty gritty of football season.

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